To contrive to avoid, save oneself from, escape from, evade. Now rare.

To escape (a threatened evil, an unwelcome task). Now rare or Obsolete.

To avoid, elude. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To avoid. Formerly also intransitive: †to escape (obsolete). Now Scottish and Irish English (rare).

transitive. To get clear away from (pursuit or a pursuer); to elude (a person's grasp); to succeed in avoiding (anything painful or unwelcome).

to slip away from, escape.

To keep clear of, to escape from or evade (something injurious or troublesome); = avoid, v. 9. Obsolete.

transitive. To elude (a blow, etc.); also, to turn aside (shame) from (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To escape, avoid. Now chiefly with specification of a margin, as just, narrowly, etc. Formerly also: †to get clear of, elude (pursuit)…

transitive. To escape by contrivance or artifice from (attack, pursuit, adverse designs; an assailant, pursuer, or adversary); to avoid, save oneself…

To frustrate the aim or purpose of; to elude, evade. Obsolete.

transitive. to dally out: to trifle with, elude.

To evade, elude. (In quot. 1820, absol.) Obsolete.

transitive. To keep (something) from happening to oneself; to escape, evade, or avoid by timely action. Obsolete.

transitive. To outdo in running; to run faster or further than. Also: to leave behind by greater speed; to escape, elude.

to fail little, not much: to have a narrow escape (of some misadventure). Const. to with infinitive and of with gerund. Also, to fail of: to keep…

To escape by dexterity or stratagem (a blow, attack, danger, or difficulty).

transitive. To escape, evade, get out of. Obsolete. rare.

To avoid, escape. Scottish. Obsolete.

To avoid, elude, escape. Obsolete.

intransitive. To evade, escape from, avoid (something inconvenient or uncongenial).

In reference to a desired end, a condition, experience, proceeding, etc.: with various prepositions and adverbs, often in specialized senses: = get…